Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 504 561
Rank change year-on-year -32 +57 +189
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 8 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.026% 0.010% 0.026%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.15% 0.055% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £481 - £503
25th Percentile £516 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £597 £622 £527
90th Percentile £675 £684 £609
UK median daily rate £575 £513 £513
% change year-on-year +12.20% - +2.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,348 5,501 6,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.27% 18.14% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 3,681 4,586
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 76 131
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.44 £22.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.69 £64.52
90th Percentile £83.95 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -4 3 £500 -2.44% 7
East of England - 3 £588 - 9
South East - 2 £750 - 15
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) dbt
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Lucidchart
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Looker
3 1 (12.50%) OLAP
3 1 (12.50%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Ontologist
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) JSON-LD
1 1 (12.50%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Linked Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) EU AI Act
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft